The sound of roots
I was in the kitchen, washing up the Sunday morning breakfast dishes in that frantic fog that rushes around young families attempting to get…
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In defense of deep roots: A rebuttal to my curses
Editor’s Note: We at Topology are currently on our annual publishing break. In the meantime, enjoy this bonus essay on the July theme of…
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Borrowed roots
The trees in my neighborhood are squeezed into small dirt rectangles between brick sidewalks and asphalt roads. Their branches get routinely hacked off, and…
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Deep Roots
Grand Rapids, Michigan (2012) Most roots do their growing underground out of view of the observer. What mystery leads them to lengthen and sink…
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Hope and Expectation
Tholen, Zeeland, The Netherlands (2017) First a little backstory: this spring I got to revisit Tholen, Zeeland, the town in the Netherlands where my…
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Patterns of migration
She never ceased to wonder at the incredible power of birds for adaptation. These had flown perhaps a thousand miles from the South to…
Read MoreA dispatch from basil on the high seas
Our poetry editor Elisabeth continues to make her way there and back again on a cross-Atlantic sailing trip with an organization that specializes in…
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